From: andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>The people I consider shouldn't be allowed to possess
firearms are those that pose a danger to society. >
I think IG has too is being a bit misleading when he says he is
preventing the "wrong" sort of people from owning firearms. You are
doing no such thing! Only preventing certain people, who you don't like,
from LEGALLY owning firearms. All you are really achieving, if anything,
is to force people who want to own a firearm (for whatever reason) to do
so without putting up with the expense and hassle of jumping through
your hoops.
And it all comes down to your personal prejudices doesn't it? A while
ago firearms inquiries officer, I think it was you, told of refusing a
firearm certificate to someone who had a picture of Adolph hitler on
display; well sixty years ago and only a few hundred miles from you are
now, having a portrait of hitler would be seen by a policeman as being a
sign of being a good citizen. So it is just personal prejudice - which
you wouldn't be allowed to express in any other field of police work. I
wonder what you would have done if the picture was of any of the 20th.
century's other mass murderers, like lenin or mao, and the applicant was
a well connected left wing councillor who was not afraid to expose your
bigotry in the courts.
As for your assertion that wanting to fire automatic firearms makes one
an unfit person - well that rules out all members of her majesties armed
forces doesn't it! Worse still I hear they go around all the while
dressed in camo outfits!
In the end you have to realize that what gun control is really all about
is TRUST. You cannot say to someone that you don't trust them with
something, whether it is a firearm, a book, a computer, whatever and
expect trust in return. That is not the way it works.
In the end as I said earlier you only preventing someone from owning
firearms legally. You would not be allowed to express you opinions about
someone who owned a firearm illegally as they would be a criminal and
would therefore have rights!
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